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g2 estudio’s dragonfly house is built with all-glass facades for 360º views over buenos aires

October 28, 2018 macnadusa 0

located along a golf course in a suburban area of buenos aires, the libélula house (spanish for dragonfly) by g2 estudio is designed as a sequence of continuous, weightless spaces, and fluid routes that take advantage of the expanded views of the surrounding environment. away from the noisy city, the house sits next to a curtain of […]

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(Not Area)16# Xiaochaye Hutong / Beijing Qingzhu Architecture Design

October 27, 2018 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

In the trend of Beijing Hutong renovation, architects have studied and interpreted Hutong Culture from various angles, but few of them achieved productive results in industrialization of renovating Beijing Hutong. In 2016, our architects accepted the challenge researching in this very field. One year later, an industrialization product was successfully developed and soon presented during 2017’s Beijing International Design Week. The product was accepted by the citizens, and in the meantime, gained social attention widely during the event.

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AD Classics: Austrian Cultural Forum / Raimund Abraham

October 27, 2018 David Langdon 0

This article was originally published on May 25, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Before the impossibly “super-thin” tower became ubiquitous on the Midtown Manhattan skyline, Raimund Abraham’s Austrian Cultural Forum challenged the limits of what could be built on the slenderest of urban lots. Working with a footprint no bigger than a townhouse (indeed, one occupied the site before the present tower), Abraham erected a daring twenty-four story high-rise only twenty-five feet across. Instantly recognizable by its profile, a symmetrical, blade-like curtain wall cascading violently toward the sidewalk, ACFNY was heralded by Kenneth Frampton as “the most significant modern piece of architecture to be realized in Manhattan since the Seagram Building and the Guggenheim Museum of 1959.” [1]

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MQ Studio / CAA

October 27, 2018 Collin Chen 0

The golden flowing river contrasted with soft misty clouds located at Beijing world trade center, a hair salo; MQ studio has been designed and construction completed by CAA at the end of August 2018.

Brickwork fronts slender East Harlem residential building by Robert Marino and Leehong Kim

October 27, 2018 James Brillon 0

Windows are recessed into the pink brick facade of this residential building, which New York architects Robert Marino and Leehong Kim have designed for a slender plot in Upper Manhattan. The five-unit building occupies a narrow plot measuring 18.25 feet (5.56 metres) wide on 130th Street in the New York City’s East Harlem neighbourhood. Robert

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joanna laajisto creates obtainable members-only office for bob the robot

October 27, 2018 macnadusa 0

transforming an old bread factory in helsinki, studio joanna laajisto has created a new home for finnish advertising agency bob the robot. the project began with the client wishing for an office space that broke away from traditions, and challenged this aim with a modest budget. the result, called ‘house of bobs’, references a private […]

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